Hemidrachm

Features

Issuer	Thasos (Thracian Islands)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	404 BC - 355 BC
Value	Hemidrachm (½)
Currency	Chian-Rhodian drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	1.82 g
Diameter	13 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 556159
References	West# 23 Allen Brown West; 1929. Fifth and Fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian Coast / Volume 40. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , BMC Greek# 50 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , Berlin# 19 Spemann (publisher). Beschreibung der antiken Münzen. Spemann, Berlin, Germany (3 volumes). , CN type# 20908 Corpus Nummorum Online (https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/) , HGC 6# 347 Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. Handbook of Coins of the Islands / Volume 6: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Wreathed head of Dionysos right.

Reverse

Herakles, wearing lion skin, kneeling right, drawing bow; ΘAΣION to left, laurel-spray to right; all within linear square in incuse square.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΘΑΣΙΟΝ

Mint

Thasos, Insula Thraciae, modern-day Island of Thasos, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (404 BC - 355 BC)

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